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SCdude.. Resorting back? You mean back to my parents and grandparents. The same grandparents that couldn't vote until they were close to the age of 35 legally and without harassment, death? Going back to that time or even further? Equal opportunity is a BIG LIE and you know it. My grandmother didn't have an opportunity to finish school, get a decent paying job, vote or even build wealth through home ownership. This is a REAL cycle of a current PROBLEM. Sadly history is not on your side. Notice I don't need to go back to the 1800's to prove why the flag doesn't mean the same things to everyone. My grandmother under the American flag couldn't vote until after she was near 37 yrs OLD!! 37! That's a black eye on America and you know it. The mere fact that this story is SO common and has a DIRECT impact on today is troubling and mind boggling how so many pretend not to understand how generational poverty and disenfranchisement has CREATED the things we see today, from stereotypical bad neighborhoods to the wealth gap to the stomping on the flag. THEY are all related and are born out of despair and desperation. Anyway I was really trying not to get too political but the constant denial is simply troubling to me as I have WITNESSED this first hand. All this is part of the reason why I HAD to join the military, no money for education even with scholarships as my mother who was able to land a job at the post office when I was 8, and that was tremendous for our family because my mom along with aunts spent their adult lives taking care of my grandmother who basically had nothing from all those freedom and opportunities she was given.... I guess she was lazy huh? For the record she tried and tried but the barriers in NC were set under jim crow laws that prevailed under the American flag. She like many other elderly black women worked in plants, as maids and housekeepers. Far from lazy was my grandmother, freedom less is more like it.
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